The real betrayal is that your doctors are doing NOTHING during the first week to stop the neuronal cascade of death by these 5 causes. Rehab is a total failure since only 10% of stroke survivors fully recover and zero percent of that is from your doctors intervention. Solve the correct problem.
Betrayal of stroke patients: Sufferers are forced to wait months for NHS rehab
Stroke victims are having to wait more than four months for physiotherapy after leaving hospital, according to a report.
The delays have a ‘devastating’ impact on patients’ recovery and undo previous painstaking hard work, experts say.
Around
152,000 UK adults suffer a stroke each year and some are left paralysed
on one side of the body or very weak in their limbs.
They have to relearn basic movements through physiotherapy sessions involving repetitive exercises.
Research
by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy found 85 per cent of health
trusts do not offer stroke victims physiotherapy within two weeks of
leaving hospital. A fifth make them wait at least 13 weeks and 4 per
cent cannot offer sessions until after 18 weeks.
The
society’s Catherine Pope said: ‘The results of this audit are a stark
reminder that too many patients are being let down once they leave
hospital.
Dominic Brand, of the Stroke Association, has called the NHS figures 'extremely concerning'
The research involved Freedom of Information requests to all 209 clinical commissioning groups in England, of which 135 replied.
Dominic Brand, a spokesman for the Stroke Association, described the findings as ‘extremely concerning’.
‘Major
strides have been made in the way stroke is treated in hospital;
however, it is clear that far too many stroke survivors are going
without the right support,’ he said.
‘Stroke
survivors regularly tell us they have had to wait weeks – and in some
cases months – for the support and therapy they need to rebuild their
lives.
‘For
too many people, their support comes too late, it stops too soon, or
they don’t have access to all types of therapy they need.’
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